Last week I was driving along when a dark cloud of Starlings landed on electrical wire right in front of me. There were possibly a thousand or more of these birds, lined up in rows of varying length, all pointing in the same direction. I stopped, took out my camera and took the following shots which help to illustrate Cee’s challenge.

Starlings on electrical wire.

Trio of Starlings on electrical wire.

One Starling stood out singly.

Starlings near electrical pole.

Finally, a picture of a juvenile Ring-billed Gull in flight, displaying many diagonal lines with its wings and body.